Gil was born in Gentilly, Minnesota, a French Canadian settlement in the Red River Valley in northwestern Minnesota. She was the sixth child in the family of nine daughters and one son born to Alwin and Evelina Sauve.[1]
By 1910, her father had opened a store in the town of Crookston and the family had moved from the farm into town.[2]When she was 21, Gil was working as a dry goods saleperson and her father was identified as a traveling salesman.[3]
Gil married John McGowan when she was 26 years old.[4]. Their two sons were born in Crookston. By 1930, they had moved to Minneapolis[5] where John was a representative of a paper company.[6]
Gil died in Minneapolis at the age of 78. She is buried with her husband in Fort Snelling National Cemetery, Minneapolis.[7]
↑ "United States Census, 1910," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M2P3-S7T : accessed 15 August 2019), Gilberte Saurer in household of Allowise J Saurer, Crookston Ward 8, Polk, Minnesota, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 193, sheet 2B, family 40, NARA microfilm publication T624 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1982), roll 715; FHL microfilm 1,374,728.
↑ "United States Census, 1920," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MWB5-WV5 : accessed 15 August 2019), Gilbert R Sause in household of Alwin J Sause, Crookston Ward 8, Polk, Minnesota, United States; citing ED 196, sheet 2B, line 53, family 35, NARA microfilm publication T625 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1992), roll 850; FHL microfilm 1,820,850.
↑ "United States Census, 1930," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:X3ZB-1LT : accessed 15 August 2019), Gilberta R Mcgowan in household of John H Mcgowan, Minneapolis (Districts 251-266), Hennepin, Minnesota, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 255, sheet 20A, line 33, family 393, NARA microfilm publication T626 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2002), roll 1100; FHL microfilm 2,340,835.
↑ "United States Census, 1940," index and images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-1971-27789-8074-91?cc=2000219 : accessed 14 Aug 2014), Minnesota > Hennepin > Minneapolis City, Minneapolis, Ward 13 > 89-425 Minneapolis City Ward 13 (Area 108 part) > image 17 of 32; citing NARA digital publication of T627.
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